Friday, July 21, 2017

PHEEBS ALWAYS GETS ALL THE ATTENTION AT THE DRIVE-THRUS……….

At first light I saw fog hanging in the pine trees and right away knew we were going to be in for a hot and humid day. And I was right. The doddering Daddy-Doggy duo were out the door early while there were still a few last smatterings of coolness in the air.

FARMERS ARE NOW BUSY TAKING OFF THE ‘WINTER WHEAT’

COUNTRY ROADS ARE BUSY WITH FARM MACHINERY MOVING ABOUT

AND FARM FOLKS ALWAYS SEEM TO BE SO GOSH DARN FRIENDLY TOO

It was our usual route and routine again with one minor change. They gave me a cranberry muffin at McDonalds instead of my usual carrot muffin. Not nice to un-expectantly change things up on old guys!! Quite often it is the two same ladies we see going through the drive-thru and soon as we pull up to the wickets both those ladies brighten right up with big Colgate smiles. It’s Pheebs they are happy to see and always make a fuss over her. I don’t think either one of those ladies has ever noticed there is actually somebody in the driver’s seat driving the Jeep.

I’VE ALWAYS LIKED ‘HOT RODS’ ANDI USED TO HAVE HOT ROD MAGAZINES WHEN I WAS KID…..COOL STUFF

With an off-shore breeze it wasn’t too bad in the shade down around the beach area at the south end of Rotary Cove. A few people already stretched out half naked in the sand took my mind back to my younger years. We would just about burn ourselves to a crisp trying to deepen those already deep brown summer tans. Oh the foolish follies of frivolous youth.

NICE SPOT FOR THIS RV’ER TO PULL OVER FOR A BREAK

THIS MOTORCYCLIST HAS FOUND HIMSELF A NICE COOL SPOT NOT FAR FROM THE WATER

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT BEING USED ALONG THE LAKESHORE

MORNING COFFEE AND SNACKS BY THE BEACH

I’M THINKING THIS IS EITHER A YOGA CLASS OR THE FIRST STAGE OF A LONG SLOW SWAN DIVE INTO LAKE HURON NEARBY

A LONE MAN SITS BY THE WATER’S EDGE PENNING HIS THOUGHTS

After picking up a few things at Walmart we made fast tracks for home. No point in even thinking about walking or hiking anywhere simply because it was already too hot and with this year’s mosquito infestation upon us right now a walk would have been brutal. Oh how I am looking forward to cooler Autumn air. Soooooo glad we decided to put central Air in about 5 years ago. Wouldn’t be without it.

Not a good night's sleep so I ended up kinda tiredly slouching around in my recliner for the afternoon with my lap top perched on me trying to think of something interesting to write about. Didn't have much luck...............

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A minister stood in front of his congregation and announced, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is that all the money is still in your pockets

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- Know how to prevent sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.- It's scary when you start making the same noises as your coffeemaker.

- I've tried to find a suitable exercise video for women my age, but they haven't made one called "Buns of Putty."- Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

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There was a blonde, brunette, and a red-head on a sinking ship. It was two miles to get to shore, so the brunette swims 1 mile and drowns, the red-head swam 1 mile and got eaten by a shark. Then the blonde swam 1 mile got tired and swam back to the ship.

2 comments:

Love that spot at Rotary cove and have park our Rv there a few times to enjoy the beach and the lovely view of Lake Huron. it is supposed to cool down for the next few days so should be a bit nicer for you.

You do realize that when you have an adorable puppy like Pheebs, you no longer exist!! Sorry to have to break the news. But it is all about cute Pheebs:) Look at the grin he is giving the ladies...too cute! Great photo of the "slow swan dive"...haha!

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 5 of them and use all 5.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a Nikon D7200 sporting a new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100 which now carries my Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-6.6 lens. I use this camera & lens for most of my candid people photos, birds, animals, bugs & flower close-ups.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.

-My Canon Powershot SX210iS is a point & shoot camera which I carry in a case on my belt everywhere I go.-My older Canon Powershot A720iS is the camera that sits close to my recliner for most of those doggy living room photos.